Please keep in mind that the flavour depends a lot on the quality of the ingredients, e.g. how sweet are the capsicums, how hot are the chillies, etc. Taste often and adjust flavour to suit your taste as you go!

Instructions:

Pre-heat oven to 180C.

Brown the meat in a heavy based oven dish/crock pot. Set aside.

Sautee onions and garlic until translucent, add ground spices and cook for a couple of minutes stirring. Transfer beef back to the pot.

Add stock, tomato paste, vegetables, and all remaining ingredients. Bring to a simmer.

Fit lid (or foil if using a pan) and place in the oven. Cook for 3 hrs or longer. Note: if you’re slow cooking it, use 160C instead and cook overnight.

When meat is tender, remove from oven and balance flavours using honey for sweetness and salt to bring out flavour.

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If you’re in the middle of your first 30 trial days, then by all means go as strict as you can: make your own tomato paste from scratch. There are plenty of recipes out there. It’ll be not only tastier, but better for you!

However, if you’re doing this for life, then there are days when you simply aren’t prepared enough for some reason or another and you still need to eat. In long term approach to paleo, we believe in a certain level of convenience and finding a balance of what works for you. Sure, whenever we can, we make our own tomato paste and cook with it. However, realistically, there are days when we can’t do that. On those days, we try to find the best possible alternative, which is an organic, nasties free jar of a ready-made tomato paste.